§ (1) Where a present tenancy was determined at any time before the passing of this Act, the Land Commission may, subject to the provisions of the Land Law Acts, on the application in the prescribed manner of any tenant in occupation of the lands comprised in the said present tenancy or of any portion of those lands, being either—
- (a) the person who was the tenant of the original holding at the time when the present tenancy was determined, or (if such person is dead)
- (b) a person who would have been entitled, whether under the will as one of the next-of-kin or issue of the said tenant, to the said holding or any distributive share therein had the present tenancy therein not been determined:
§ lease within the meaning of the Act of 1881.
§ (2) Any provision in any contract of tenancy or other instrument in any way prohibiting, restraining, or tending to prevent the fixing of a fair rent in respect of any holding to which this Section applies, shall be void.
§ (3) In this Section the expression "prescribed" means prescribed by rules made by the Land Commission under Section fifty of the Act of 1881 as amended by any subsequent enactment, and the expression "present tenancy" includes a tenancy which was determined at any time between the first day of January, eighteen hundred and Seventy-nine, and the passing of the Act of 1881.
§ Amendment proposed: After Sub-section (2) to insert the following new Sub-section: "(3) Where a present tenancy has been sold under a writ of execution and assigned by the sheriff to the landlord, or a trustee for the landlord, the tenancy shall, for the purposes of this Section, be deemed to have been determined."—[Mr. Birrell]
§ Question put, "That the Amendment be made."
§ The House divided: Ayes, 234; Noes, 48.
2451| Division No. 679.] | AYES. | [11.25 p.m. |
| Abraham, William (Cork, N.E.) | Condon, Thomas Joseph | Glover, Thomas |
| Agar-Robartes, Hon. T. C. R. | Cooper, G. J. | Gooch, George Peabody (Bath) |
| Agnew, George William | Corbett, A. Cameron (Glasgow) | Gulland, John W. |
| Alden, Percy | Corbett, C. H. (Sussex, E. Grinstead) | Gwynn, Stephen Lucius |
| Allen, A. Acland (Christchurch) | Cornwall, Sir Edwin A. | Haldane, Rt. Hon. Richard B. |
| Allen, Charles P. (Stroud) | Cotton, Sir H. J. S. | Hancock, John George |
| Ambrose, Robert | Cowan, W. H. | Harcourt, Robert V. (Montrose) |
| Armitage, R. | Crosfield, A. H. | Hardy, George A. (Suffolk) |
| Baker, Joseph A. (Finsbury, E.) | Cullinan, J. | Harmsworth, R. L. (Caithness-shire) |
| Ballour, Robert (Lanark) | Dalziel, Sir James Henry | Harrington, Timothy |
| Baring, Godfrey (Isle of Wight) | Davies, Timothy (Fulham) | Harwood, George |
| Barlow, Sir John E. (Somerset) | Davies, Sir W. Howell (Bristol, S.) | Haworth, Arthur A. |
| Barnard, E. B. | Delany, William | Hazleton, Richard |
| Barran, Rowland Hirst (Leeds, N.) | Dewar, Arthur (Edinburgh, S.) | Healy, Maurice (Cork) |
| Barry, E. (Cork, S.) | Dickinson, W. H. (St. Pancras, N.) | Healy, T. M. (Louth, North) |
| Barry, Redmond J. (Tyrone, N.) | Dillon, John | Helme, Norval Watson |
| Beauchamp, E. | Dobson, Thomas W. | Henderson, Arthur (Durham) |
| Beaumont, Hon. Hubert | Duffy, William J. | Henry, Charles S. |
| Benn, Sir J. Williams (Devonport) | Dunne, Major E. Martin (Walsall) | Higham, John Sharp |
| Birrell, Rt. Hon. Augustine | Edwards, Sir Francis (Radnor) | Hogan, Michael |
| Black, Arthur W. | Elibank, Master of | Hooper, A. G. |
| Boland, John | Erskine, David C. | Horniman, Emslie John |
| Bowerman, C. W. | Evans, Sir Samuel T. | Hudson, Walter |
| Branch, James | Everett, R. Lacey | Hutton, Alfred Eddison |
| Brunner, J. F. L. (Lanes., Leigh) | Falconer, James | Idris, T. H. W. |
| Bryce, J. Annan | Farrell, James Patrick | Isaacs, Rufus Daniel |
| Buckmaster, Stanley O. | Ffrench, Peter | Johnson, John (Gateshead) |
| Burke, E. Haviland- | Field, William | Jones, Leif (Appleby) |
| Burns, Rt. Hon. John | Flavin, Michael Joseph | Jones, William (Carnarvonshire) |
| Burnyeat, W. J. D. | Flynn, James Christopher | Jordan, Jeremiah |
| Burt, Rt. Hon. Thomas | Fuller, John Michael F. | Joyce, Michael |
| Byles, William Pollard | Fullerton, Hugh | Kavanagh, Walter M. |
| Channing, Sir Francis Allston | Furness, Sir Christopher | Keating, Matthew |
| Cherry, Rt. Hon. R. R. | Gibb, James (Harrow) | Kekewich, Sir George |
| Clancy, John Joseph | Gilhooly, James | Kelley, George D. |
| Clough, William | Gill, A. H. | Kennedy, Vincent Paul |
| Clynes, J. R. | Ginnell, L. | Kilbride, Denis |
| Cobbold, Felix Thornley | Gladstone, Rt. Hon. Herbert John | King, Alfred John (Knutsford) |
| Collins, Stephen (Lambeth) | Glendinning, R. G. | Laidlaw, Robert |
| Lambert, George | Norman, Sir Henry | Roe, Sir Thomas |
| Lamont, Norman | Nugent, Sir Walter Richard | Rutherford, V. H. (Brentford) |
| Lardner, James Carrige Rushe | Nussey, Sir Willans | Samuel, Rt. Hon. H. L. (Cleveland) |
| Law, Hugh A. (Donegal, W.) | Nuttall, Harry | Scanlan, Thomas |
| Layland-Barratt, Sir Francis | O'Brien, Kendal (Tipperary, Mid) | Scarisbrick, Sir T. T. L. |
| Lehmann, R. C. | O'Brien, Patrick (Kilkenny) | Schwann, C. Duncan (Hyde) |
| Lewis, John Herbert | O'Connor, John (Kildare, N.) | Schwann, Sir C. E. (Manchester) |
| Lundon, Thomas | O'Connor, T. P. (Liverpool) | Seely, Colonel |
| Luttrell, Hugh Fownes | O'Doherty, Philip | Shackleton, David James |
| Lynch, Arthur Alfred (Clare, W.) | O'Donnell, John (Mayo, S.) | Sheehan, Daniel Daniel |
| Macdonald, J. R. (Leicester) | O'Donnell, T. (Kerry, W.) | Sheehy, David |
| Macdonald, J. M. (Falkirk Burghs) | O'Dowd, John | Smyth, Thomas F. (Leitrim, S.) |
| Maclean, Donald | O'Kelly, Conor (Mayo, N.) | Snowden, P. |
| MacNeill, John Gordon Swift | O'Kelly, James (Roscommon, N.) | Soares, Ernest J. |
| Macpherson, J. T. | O'Malley, William | Stewart-Smith, D. (Kendal) |
| MacVeagh, Jeremiah (Down, S.) | O'Shaughnessy, P. J. | Strachey, Sir Edward |
| MacVeigh, Charles (Donegal, E.) | O'Shee, James John | Summerbell, T. |
| M'Kean, John | Parker, James (Halifax) | Taylor, John W. (Durham) |
| M'Laren, Rt. Hon. Sir C. B. (Leicester) | Partington, Oswald | Tennant, Sir Edward (Salisbury) |
| M'Laren, H. D. (Stafford, W.) | Pearce, Robert (Staffs, Leek) | Tennant, H. J. (Berwickshire) |
| M'Micking, Major G. | Phillips, John (Longford, S.) | Thomas, Abel (Carmarthen, E.) |
| Maddison, Frederick | Pickersgill, Edward Hare | Verney, F. W. |
| Mallet, Charles E. | Pointer, Joseph | Vivian, Henry |
| Marnham, F. J. | Ponsonby, Arthur A. W. H. | Walters, John Tudor |
| Meagher, Michael | Power, Patrick Joseph | Wardle, George J. |
| Meehan, Francis E. (Leitrim, N.) | Priestley, Sir W. E. B. (Bradford, E.) | Waring, Walter |
| Meehan, Patrick A. (Queen's Co.) | Radford, G. H. | Warner, Thomas Courtenay T. |
| Menzies, Sir Walter | Rainy, A. Holland | Wason, Rt. Hon. E. (Clackmannan) |
| Molteno, Percy Alport | Raphael, Herbert H. | Watt, Henry A. |
| Mooney, J. J. | Rea, Rt. Hon. Russell (Gloucester) | White, J. Dundas (Dumbartonshire) |
| Morgan, J. Lloyd (Carmarthen) | Reddy, M. | White, Sir Luke (York, E.R.) |
| Morrell, Philip | Redmond, John E. (Waterford) | White, Patrick (Meath, North) |
| Morton, Alpheus Cleophas | Redmond, William (Clare) | Whittaker, Rt. Hon. Sir Thomas P. |
| Muldoon, John | Richards, T. F. (Wolverhampton) | Wiles, Thomas |
| Murnaghan, George | Roberts, Charles H. (Lincoln) | Wilson, Hon. G. G. (Hull, W.) |
| Murphy, John | Roberts, G. H. (Norwich) | Wilson, W. T. (Westhoughton) |
| Nannetti, Joseph P. | Robertson, Sir G. Scott (Bradford) | Young, Samuel |
| Newnes, F. (Notts, Bassetlaw) | Robson, Sir William Snowdon | |
| Nicholls, George | Roch, Walter F. (Pembroke) | TELLERS FOR THE AYES.—Mr. |
| Nolan, Joseph | Roche, Augustine (Cork) | Joseph Pease and Captain Norton. |
| NOES. | ||
| Acland-Hood, Rt. Hon. Sir Alex. F. | Craik, Sir Henry | Lonsdale, John Brownlee |
| Balcarres, Lord | Douglas, Rt. Hon. A. Akers- | MacCaw, William J. MacGeagh |
| Banbury, Sir Frederick George | Duncan, Robert (Lanark, Govan) | M'Calmont, Colonel James |
| Banner, John S. Harmood- | Fletcher, J. S. | Moore, William |
| Barrie, H. T. (Londonderry, N.) | Gordon, J. | Rawlinson, John Frederick Peel |
| Bull, Sir William James | Goulding, Edward Alfred | Renton, Leslie |
| Butcher, Samuel Henry | Gretton, John | Roberts, S. (Sheffield, Ecclesall) |
| Carlile, E. Hildred | Guinness, Hon. W. E. (Bury St. Edm.) | Scott, Sir S. (Marylebone, W.) |
| Carson, Rt. Hon. Sir Edward H. | Haddock, George B. | Sheffield, Sir Berkeley George D. |
| Castlereagh, Viscount | Harrison-Broadley, H. B. | Staveley-Hill, Henry (Staffordshire) |
| Cecil, Evelyn (Aston Manor) | Hay, Hon. Claude George | Thomson, W. Mitchell (Lanark) |
| Clark, George Smith | Hermon-Hodge, Sir Robert T. | Valentia, Viscount |
| Clive, Percy Archer | Hill, Sir Clement | Wilson, A. Stanley (York, E.R.) |
| Coates, Major E. F. (Lewisham) | Kerry, Earl of | Wyndham, Rt. Hon. George |
| Corbett, T. L. (Down, North) | Keswick, William | |
| Craig, Charles Curtis (Antrim, S.) | Lambton, Hon. Frederick Wm. | TELLERS FOR THE NOES.—Mr. |
| Craig, Capt. James (Down, E.) | Long, Rt. Hon. Walter (Dublin, S.) | Forster and Marquess of Hamilton. |
§ Mr. BIRRELLmoved to leave out "a" ["includes a tenancy"], and to insert instead thereof the wards "any existing lease within the meaning of the Act of 1881, and any."
§ Question put, "That the Amendment be made."
§ The House divided: Ayes, 227; Noes, 46.
2453| Division No. 680.] | AYES. | [11.35 p.m. |
| Abraham, William (Cork, N.E.) | Barry, E. (Cork, S.) | Burke, E. Haviland- |
| Agar-Robartes, Hon. T. C. R. | Barry, Redmond J. (Tyrone, N.) | Burns, Rt. Hon. John |
| Agnew, George William | Beauchamp, E. | Burnyeat, W. J. D. |
| Allen, A. Acland (Christchurch) | Beaumont, Hon. Hubert | Burt, Rt. Hon. Thomas |
| Allen, Charles P. (Stroud) | Benn, Sir J. Williams (Devonport) | Byles, William Pollard |
| Ambrose, Robert | Birrell, Rt. Hon. Augustine | Channing, Sir Francis Allston |
| Armitage, R. | Black, Arthur W. | Cherry, Rt. Hon. R. R. |
| Baker, Joseph A. (Finsbury, E.) | Boland, John | Clancy, John Joseph |
| Balfour, Robert (Lanark) | Bowerman, C. W. | Clough, William |
| Baring, Godfrey (Isle of Wight) | Branch, James | Clynes, J. R. |
| Barlow, Sir John E. (Somerset) | Brunner, J. F. L. (Lanes., Leigh) | Cobbold, Felix Thornley |
| Bernard, E. B. | Bryce, J. Annan | Collins, Stephen (Lambeth) |
| Barran, Rowland Hirst (Leeds, N.) | Buckmaster, Stanley O. | Condon, Thomas Joseph |
| Cooper, G. J. | Jordan, Jeremiah | O'Kelly, James (Roscommon, N.) |
| Corbett, C. H. (Sussex, E. Grinstead) | Joyce, Michael | O'Malley, William |
| Cornwall, Sir Edwin A. | Kavanagh, Walter M. | O'Shaughnessy, P. J. |
| Cotton, Sir H. J. S. | Keating, Matthew | O'Shee, James John |
| Cowan, W. H. | Kekewich, Sir George | Parker, James (Halifax) |
| Crosfield, A. H. | Kelley, George D. | Partington, Oswald |
| Cullinan, J. | Kennedy, Vincent Paul | Pearce, Robert (Staffs, Leek) |
| Dalziel, Sir James Henry | Kilbride, Denis | Philips, John (Longford, S.) |
| Davies, Timothy (Fulham) | King, Alfred John (Knutsford) | Pickersgill, Edward Hare |
| Davies, Sir W. Howell (Bristol, S.) | Laidlaw, Robert | Pointer, Joseph |
| Delany, William | Lambert, George | Ponsenby, Arthur A. W. H. |
| Dewar, Arthur (Edinburgh, S.) | Lamont, Norman | Power, Patrick Joseph |
| Dickinson, W. H. (St. Pancras, N.) | Lardner, James Carrige Rushe | Priestley, Sir W. E. B. (Bradford, E.) |
| Dobson, Thomas W. | Law, Hugh A. (Donegal, W.) | Radford, G. H. |
| Duffy, William J. | Layland-Barratt, Sir Francis | Rainy, A. Rolland |
| Dunne, Major E. Martin (Walsall) | Lehmann, R. C. | Raphael, Herbert H. |
| Edwards, Sir Francis (Radnor) | Lewis, John Herbert | Rea, Rt. Hon. Russell (Gloucester) |
| Elibank, Master of | Lundon, Thomas | Reddy, M. |
| Erskine, David C. | Luttrell, Hugh Fownes | Redmond, John E. (Waterford) |
| Evans, Sir Samuel T. | Lynch, Arthur Alfred (Clare, W.) | Redmond, William (Clare) |
| Everett, R. Lacey | Macdonald, J. R. (Leicester) | Richards, T. F. (Wolverhampton) |
| Farrell, James Patrick | Macdonald, J. M. (Falkirk Burghs) | Roberts, Charles H. (Lincoln) |
| Ffrench, Peter | Maclean, Donald | Roberts, G. H. (Norwich) |
| Field, William | Macnamara, Dr. Thomas J. | Robertson, Sir G. Scott (Bradford) |
| Flavin, Michael Joseph | MacNeill, John Gordon Swift | Robson, Sir William Snowdon |
| Flynn, James Christopher | Macpherson, J. T. | Roch, Walter F. (Pembroke) |
| Fuller, John Michael F. | MacVeagh, Jeremiah (Down, S.) | Roche, Augustine (Cork) |
| Fullerton, Hugh | MacVeigh, Charles (Donegal, E.) | Roe, Sir Thomas |
| Furness, Sir Christopher | M'Kean, John | Rutherford, V. H. (Brentford) |
| Gibb, James (Harrow) | McLaren, Rt. Hon. Sir C. B. (Leices.) | Samuel, Rt. Hon. H. L. (Cleveland) |
| Gilhooly, James | M'Laren, H. D. (Stafford, W.) | Scanlan, Thomas |
| Gill, A. H. | M'Micking, Major G. | Scarisbrick, Sir T. T. L. |
| Ginnell, L. | Maddison, Frederick | Seely, Colonel |
| Gladstone, Rt. Hon. Herbert John | Mallet, Charles E. | Shackleton, David James |
| Glendinning, R. G. | Marnham, F. J. | Sheehan, Daniel Daniel |
| Glover, Thomas | Meagher, Michael | Sheehy, David |
| Gooch, George Peabody (Bath) | Meehan, Francis E. (Leitrim, N.) | Smyth, Thomas F. (Leitrim, S.) |
| Gulland, John W. | Meehan, Patrick A. (Queen's Co.) | Snowden, P. |
| Gwynn, Stephen Lucius | Menzies, Sir Walter | Stewart-Smith, D. (Kendal) |
| Haldane, Rt. Hon. Richard B. | Molteno, Percy Alport | Strachey, Sir Edward |
| Hancock, J. G. | Mooney, J. J. | Summerbell, T. |
| Harcourt, Robert V. (Montrose) | Morgan, J. Lloyd (Carmarthen) | Taylor, John W. (Durham) |
| Hardy, George A. (Suffolk) | Morrell, Philip | Tennant, Sir Edward (Salisbury) |
| Harmsworth, R. L. (Caithness-shire) | Morton, Alpheus Cleophas | Tennant, H. J. (Berwickshire) |
| Harrington, Timothy | Muldoon, John | Thomas, Abel (Carmarthen, E.) |
| Harwood, George | Murnaghan, George | Verney, F. W. |
| Haworth, Arthur A. | Murphy, John | Vivian, Henry |
| Hazleton, Richard | Nannetti, Joseph P. | Walters, John Tudor |
| Healy, Maurice (Cork) | Newnes, F. (Notts, Bassetlaw) | Waring, Walter |
| Healy, T. M. (Louth, North) | Nicholls, George | Warner, Thomas Courtenay T. |
| Helme, Norval Watson | Nolan, Joseph | Wason, Rt. Hon. E. (Clackmannan) |
| Henderson, Arthur (Durham) | Norman, Sir Henry | Watt, Henry A. |
| Henry, Charles S. | Nugent, Sir Walter Richard | White, J. Dundas (Dumbartonshire) |
| Higham, John Sharp | Nussey, Sir Willans | White, Sir Luke (York, E.R.) |
| Hogan, Michael | Nuttall, Harry | White, Patrick (Heath, North) |
| Hooper, A. G. | O'Brien, Kendal (Tipperary, Mid) | Whittaker, Rt. Hon. Sir Thomas P. |
| Horniman, Emslie John | O'Brien, Patrick (Kilkenny) | Wiles, Thomas |
| Hudson, Walter | O'Connor, John (Kildare, N.) | Wilson, Hon. G. G. (Hull, W.) |
| Hutton. Alfred Eddison | O'Connor, T. P. (Liverpool) | Wilson, W. T. (Westhoughton) |
| Idris, T. H. W. | O'Doherty, Philip | Young, Samuel |
| Isaacs, Rufus Daniel | O'Donnell, John (Mayo, S.) | |
| Johnson, John (Gateshead) | O'Donnell, T. (Kerry, W.) | TELLERS FOR THE AYES.—Mr. |
| Jones, Leif (Appleby) | O'Dowd, John | Joseph Pease and Captain Norton. |
| Jones, William (Carnarvonshire) | O'Kelly, Conor (Mayo, N.) | |
| NOES. | ||
| Acland-Hood, Rt. Hon. Sir Alex. F. | Douglas, Rt. Hon. A. Akers- | Lonsdale, John Brownlee |
| Banbury, Sir Frederick George | Duncan, Robert (Lanark, Govan) | MacCaw, William J. MacGeagh |
| Banner, John S. Harmood- | Forster, Henry William | M'Calmont, Colonel James |
| Barrie, H. T. (Londonderry, N.) | Gordon, J. | Moore, William |
| Bull, Sir William James | Goulding, Edward Alfred | Rawlinson, John Frederick Peel |
| Burdett-Coutts, W. | Gretton, John | Renton, Leslie |
| Butcher, Samuel Henry | Guinness, Hon. W. E. (B. S. Edm'ds.) | Roberts, S. (Sheffield, Ecclesall) |
| Carlile, E. Hildred | Haddock, George B. | Scott, Sir S. (Marylebone, W.) |
| Carson, Rt. Hon. Sir Edward H. | Hamilton, Marquess of | Sheffield, Sir Berkeley George D. |
| Castlereagh, viscount | Harrison-Broadley, H. B. | Staveley-Hill, Henry (Staffordshire) |
| Cecil, Evelyn (Aston Manor) | Hay, Hon. Claude George | Wilson, A. Stanley (York, E.R.) |
| Clark, George Smith | Hermon-Hodge, Sir Robert T. | Wyndham, Rt. Hon. George |
| Clive, Percy Archer | Hill, Sir Clement | |
| Coates, Major E. F. (Lewisham) | Kerry, Earl of | |
| Craig, Charles Curtis (Antrim, S.) | Keswick, William | TELLERS FOR THE NOES.—Viscount Valentia and Lord Balcarres. |
| Craig, Captain James (Down, E.) | Lambton, Hon. Frederick Wm. | |
| Craik, Sir Henry | Long, Rt. Hon. Walter (Dublin, S.) |
Question put, and agreed to.
| SECOND SCHEDULE. | ||
| Acts Repealed. | ||
| Session and Chapter. | Short Title. | Extent of Repeal. |
| 51 & 52 Vict. c. 49. | The Purchase of Land (Ireland) Amendment Act, 1888. | Section two, save as regards advances of pursuance agreements entered into before the passing of this Act. |
| 54 & 55 Vict. c. 48. | The Purchase of Land (Ireland) Act, 1891. | Section thirty-four, from "consisting" to the end of the section, as from the appointed day. |
| 56 & 57 Vict. c. 35. | The Congested Districts Board (Ireland) Act, 1893. | Sub-sections (2) and (3) of Section two. |
| 3 Edw. 7 c. 37. | The Irish Land Act, 1903. | In Section one, Subsection (4), save as regards advances in pursuance of purchase agreements entered into before the passing of this Act. |
| Section two, save as regards sales of parcels of land in respect of which purchase agreements have bee a entered into before the passing of this Act. | ||
| In Sub-section (4) of Section six, the words, "with the consent of the owner." | ||
| Sub-section (3) of Section forty-three. | ||
| Section forty-four. | ||
| In Sub-section (1) of Section forty-seven, from "provided" to end of sub-section. | ||
| Sub-section (3) of Section forty-eight. | ||
| Section seventy-five. |
§ Amendment made: After the words "forty-eight" ["Sub-section (3) of Section forty-eight"] to insert "Sub-sections (1), (2), and (3), of Section fifty-one."
§ Bill to be read the third time to-morrow (Friday.)